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Wired gets Snøhetta, SHoP and SOM to push the limits of LEGO

Gregg Pasquarelli, co-founder and partner at SHoP Architects in New York, built this futuristic cityscape. Photo: Gregory Reid

After a freewheeling round of discussions, Snøhetta’s New York office settled on a unique challenge: building a Lego structure that captured the plastic bricks’ unique relationship to gravity. “A Lego building has a lightness that a real building doesn’t have to contend with,” says Craig Dykers, Snøhetta’s co-founder. “We thought wouldn’t it be interesting to capture the feeling of gravity in a Lego block, where gravity actually has very little influence in many ways on its structure...”
— wired.com

Snohetta found a delicate equilibrium with this boomerang-shaped tower. Photo: Gregory Reid